Custom Project Status?

[Keith]

Is it possible to modify the project status' or are they hard coded? I don't see a simple list for them. 

 

 

[AlexTumber]

@Keith thanks for your post. 

The project status list is currently hardcoded for several reasons, mostly to do with date calculations. That's not to say that this can't change though :-) 

Can I ask your reason for wanting to add new status values?

 

Alex

[Keith]

@alextumber I am just evaluating the app and want to report out on it internally. To do so I wanted to replicate as best as possible what we have today. We use terms like, pipeline, planning, and On-hold which do not appear in the list. We can certainly use Draft instead of pipeline, but not sure how the others would be addressed.

[AlexTumber]

@Keith ok thanks.

Would something like a project sub status (which was a simple list) be of any interest to you?

I'm thinking that this way, you can define a list of sub status's for each system status that you want.

Alex

[Keith]

@alextumber I imagine that could work. Draft could have a sub status of Pipeline and planning. I think the main anomaly would be On-Hold which I imagine would have to sit under Active, but I think we could make that work.

 

[AlexTumber]

@Keith thanks for this. Let me feed this back to our development and product teams and we'll see what comes of it.

 

Alex

[AlexTumber]

@Keith I'm pleased to say that our development team have added Project Sub Statuses. This feature will be available in the next Project Manager update.

What you can expect from the new feature:

A new simple list called 'Project Sub Status' allow you to define translatable sub statuses:

 

There is a new tile in the Hornbill Admin Tool called 'Project Sub Statuses'. This is where you map system statuses to your custom sub statuses that you have defined in the simple list:

 

 

These mappings are searchable on both system status and sub status name:

 

As you would expect, you can add, update, remove or remove all Project Sub Statuses

 

You now have the option of selecting a project sub status on the 'Project Status' progressive capture form. Only sub statuses for the selected system status will be shown:

 

Inside a project, the details have been reconfigured so that the Project Status and Sub Status are now on the same line. Once again, only the relevant sub statuses are shown:

 

The option to specify a sub status on creation will be added to the iBridge nodes once the Project Manager update that contains this feature goes live. There are several places where I believe you might want to see a project sub status throughout the application and these will be added over future updates if the demand is there, such as the ability to filter by project sub status on the project portfolio.

I'll be interested to hear how you get on once you get your hands on this functionality!

 

Alex

[Keith]

 Hi @alextumber May thanks for making me aware of this and for the detailed explanation. Looks like a great addition to the feature set. I'll be sure to test it out and feedback.

 

Thanks

 

Keith

 

 

[AlexTumber]

@Keith FYI,  the latest Project Manager update is now live.

 

Alex

[Keith]

Thanks @alextumber , saw that and have applied update.